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Bug#558360: lintian fails silently with error code 141



Package: lintian
Version: 2.2.17ubuntu1
Severity: important


When I'm running lintian on a certain custom built .deb package (ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb)
then lintian sometimes just fails without any error message with error code 141.

  $ lintian --check --allow-root --show-overrides -i -b ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb >lintian.txt
  
  $ echo $?
  141

In this case "lintian.txt" is empty. However, sometimes (every thrid attempt or so) lintian works on this package.
The deb package was built using cowdancer. I've uploaded it here: http://www.mayastudios.com/ghostscript_8.64-5_i386.deb

I'm not sure whether this is a problem of cowdancer or any other package as all other packages I'm building
with cowdancer just work fine. But in any case I think it's a good idea to display some kind of error message
in this case (or fix this bug as sometimes lintian just works with this package).

Btw: I know I'm using Ubuntu (9.10) but I don't think this is a Ubuntu specific error. If someone using
Debian could just check whether this problem appears at his/her system as well it'll be nice.

Regards
Sebastian

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers karmic-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'karmic-updates'), (500, 'karmic-security'), (500, 'karmic')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils              2.20-0ubuntu2      The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat              1.47-1             produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev              1.15.4ubuntu2      Debian package development tools
ii  file                  5.03-1ubuntu1      Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext               0.17-8ubuntu2      GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian       0.35.0+20060710.1  Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libapt-pkg-perl       0.1.23build1       Perl interface to libapt-pkg
ii  libclass-accessor-per 0.33-1             Automated accessor generator
ii  libipc-run-perl       0.82-1             Perl module for running processes
ii  libparse-debianchange 1.1.1-2ubuntu1     parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  libtimedate-perl      1.1600-9           Time and date functions for Perl
ii  liburi-perl           1.37+dfsg-1ubuntu1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin
ii  man-db                2.5.6-2            on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-sha-p 5.10.0-24ubuntu4   Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
pn  binutils-multiarch            <none>     (no description available)
pn  libtext-template-perl         <none>     (no description available)
ii  man-db                        2.5.6-2    on-line manual pager

-- no debconf information



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